The Complete poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe

Sonnet — To Zante (1837)

A Shakespearean sonnet, it was first published in the January 1837 issue of the Southern Literary
Messenger. The poem praises the beauty of the island Zante. The last two lines, written in Italian, are also used in
Poe’s earlier poem “Al Aaraaf.”